Pinecone Research

One of the leading sites with a good offering as paid online survey
is the Pinecone Research site. It stands out of the crowd of hundreds
of survey sites with its unique features. If you want good returns
with your paid survey efforts you should join this site with out hesitation.

Fact about Pinecone Research

AC Nielson is a giant US corporation based in New York and it is
leader in the search market field, Pinecone Research is the one of
its wing for such activity. Here you will get chance to give your
opinion on forthcoming products and specifically suggestion for such
a product that are not generally available to the public. Membership
is strictly limited to single user per household only.

Where to find recruitment banner

It is very difficult to find Pinecone Research recruitment banner.
On some of very specific websites or such a websites that advice on
money savings, there only you may spot it. Pinecone sometimes prefers
to recruit some specific target groups like dog owners or first time
mothers. In such case its recruitment banner will only be flash on
pet owner or mother and baby websites.

On various sites of World Wide Web it flashes for a moment and quickly
passed around so you need to be fast enough to catch it up. It may
be your good luck if you catch it on the very instances it flashes
with its logo.

During your surfing if you find the Pinecone Research Banner,
then immediately click on the link. It never hangs around for long
time. Sometime it may take hours together to reappear on the screen.
It is very simple online form that you have to complete. You may be
asked your name, address, email, occupation, age, gender, education
level and the number of people in your household.

About the website

The short cut way to reach to pinecore other than for waiting for
elusive banner on website, you can directly log on their website,
www.pineconersearch.co.uk. It is nicely prepared mostly with gold,
green, black and white. It does not offer you more information for
joining their panel but simply tells you that:

“ Currently recruitment for new members via our website not
open. However we may post for new recruitment opportunities through
banner ads on various websites time to time through the year. Be watchful
and also instruct your family/friends to watch the websites carefully.”

The home page is laid out as

You will be paid for every individual survey you undertake; there
is no personal account in Pinecone to access. You can log on and update
details but that’s as far as it goes. We do not have any record
of surveys taken or payment made to you. What we do is, we will send
an email with incorporating required instructions on how to access
your first survey. Similarly, within few days you will get welcome
letter by post containing your payment and a letter and associated
with leaflet explaining you all about Pinecone Research.

You will be assign Household ID of eight digit number and password
provided through email and letter. You will be given clear instruction
on how to access your first survey. The Household ID is very important
and mandatory in accessing the study area of the website, without
that it is impossible to do so. The ID cannot be change as per your
choice. But do not worry, in every survey invite it will be quoted
so do not worry if you lose the initial letter.

REWARDS

You get paid for every individual survey you undertake so no annoying
minimum points system before you get your benefit. Rewards for taking
the survey, you will be paid Accor luncheon vouchers. A flat rate
of £ 4.00 for every survey that you will have undertakes. It
is quite good amount as a return for approximately 10 minutes work!
The payment comes in a handy little booklet detailing the various
outlets about luncheon vouchers. The amount £4.00 has made up
of a combination of £1 and £0.50p vouchers. It is more
convenient for payment on small purchase too and no worries about
the change. Validity of the vouchers is for several months. Easily
you can be saved or just treat yourself to a couple of Café
Lattes at Starbucks. If you lose them, then it cannot be replaced
by Pinecone afterwards

You may think that it sounds like bit old fashioned to issue such
luncheon vouchers, it is true, now a days it is not widely used as
they were popular in 60’s and 70’s, (or 80’s for
those you remember Cynthia Payne’s brothel where they accepted
luncheon Voucher against certain services).

No doubt that still over 33,000 high street outlets are there to
accept them. You can use them for buying any products other than food
or drink in major UK supermarket chains or else at Boots. It can be
useful at fast food outlets like Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonalds,
Burger King and Starbucks. For complete details of outlets go to www.luncheonvouchers.co.uk.
You have some patience in most outlets accepting them during exchange,
as the majority of staff operating they have to call their supervisors
for help in processing them.

Survey Format

Initially survey will be sending you by email by Pinecone Research.
Later on your luncheon vouchers will reach to you by post along with
a letter giving you various instructions in addition to the email,
on how to access the survey. It is the only company, which pays you
in advance BEFORE you undertake the survey. But do not think that
you may keep luncheon vouchers and not giving feedback on survey,
if you do not respond you will soon get struck off from the panel
and no more surveys will be given to you. So you will be looser in
that case.

Remember that emails always come from scott@pineconeresearch.co.uk
and you will be informed about your selection for taking part in project
number XYZ. You will be informed to log onto the website and access
the survey. You rest assures that you will be definitely qualified
and get paid, if you receive a survey offered by Pinecone Research.
You will not be disappointed about rejection in survey by going through
some type of pre-screening or so. Pinecore do such selection procedure
BEFORE they invite you to do their survey. The type of survey will
not be known to you either by email or by letter, but you will be
inform about the closing date of the survey which are normally within
5 to 7 days of time limit. Hence you do not have to rush to respond.

The surveys are crafted such a way that it takes hardly 15 to 20
minutes, practically even in less time around 8 to 10 minutes or so.
Here you will be shown various images of the several products for
which you have to survey then you will be asked for your opinion on
the packaging, about the product concept and what are the chances
to buy it. Very simple questions have been framed and in majority
cases you have to tick multiple-choice boxes only. (Sound very simple!).
It has been very professionally laid out and you will complete it
ease with out any problem. It has been assured that all the links
have worked and done nicely what has been assigned to do.

CUSTOMER SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any problem Ms Karen Scott is there to help you immediately,
as she is running customer service very efficiently. You should not
be fear about your personal details, as Pinecone Research assures
you that it will not be shared with third parties. At Pinecore Research
the security is the prime importance. You have to sign a disclosure
agreeing that you will not discuss the product with anyone else, before
you start any survey/product test. Moreover, occasionally Pinecore
Research send out warning emails specifying that Pinecore is after
you to assure that you should not discuss any of the products you
have evaluated on their behalf with anyone. Be aware if you discuss
such matter about any of the products online either in chat rooms
or in bulletin boards, your name will be removed from the panel for
future survey and you will be looser.

Just if we summing up this details as Pinecore promise to keep your
personal information secure and confidential and similarly you also
have to promise to keep our information secure and confidential.

Conclusion

It is worth to join this survey site if you can find recruitment
link. As this work is very periodic in nature, but Pinecore do offer
a better returns for minimum workload on your part. So do not wait
and start searching for those banners with the green and white Pinecone
logo. You will definitely pick it up at any instance of time while
browsing. Best of Luck!

Contacts

Pinecone Research
ACNielsen House
London Road
Headington
Oxford
OX3 9RX